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23 September 2015 Current Affair Updates | Daily GK Download

1. Three Indians have made it to a new list of 100
notable tattoo artists from around the globe. The World Atlas of Tattoo,
published by Yale University Press, features Nagaland’s Mo Naga,
Kolkata’s Abhinandan “Obi” Basu and Delhi’s Manjeet Singh amongst the
who’s who of tattoo art all over the world.

2. The Union Cabinet has approved the setting up of
Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) as a Society
under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. The ISLRTC will be under the
aegis of the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities,
Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. It shall be located
initially at the Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute for the Physically
Handicapped, New Delhi.

3. The World Bank’s investment arm International
Finance Corporation (IFC) has invested $145 million (around Rs 950
crore) in six of the 10 companies that have been granted small finance
bank licences with a collective client base of nine million. IFCs
investments in Equitas, Ujjivan, Suryoday, Utkarsh, AU Financiers and
Janalakshmi were made through debt and equity mainly during 2010-2012.
IFC’s shareholding is in the range of 10-15 per cent because the
institution generally does not take more than 20 per cent stake in the
companies it invests in.

23 September 2015 Current Affair Updates | Daily GK Download

4. Information technology major Infosys has won a Rs
1,400-crore contract from GST Network (GST-N) to build the IT system so
that the goods and services tax (GST) regime is rolled out on schedule.
Navin Kumar has been appointed as Chairman of GST-N. The company is
supposed to lay the IT-backbone to implement the GST regime. Once the
backbone is ready, Infosys will operate it for five years.

5. States have broadly agreed to ensure compliance with
the proposed Environmental Guidelines for construction projects in
urban areas at the Workshop on ‘Climate Change Mitigation in Urban
Sector’ organized by the Ministry of Urban Development in New Delhi on
September 21, 2015. The Workshop was organized for green construction in
view of the fact that building sector consumes 40% of electricity
generated in the country, 30% of raw materials and 20% each of water and
land resources besides generating 30% of solid waste and 20% of
effluents.

6. Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras stormed back into
office on 21 September with an unexpectedly decisive election victory
claiming a clear mandate to steer Greece's battered economy to recovery.
The vote ensured Europe's most outspoken leftist leader would remain
Greece's dominant political figure, despite having been abandoned by
party radicals last month after he caved in to demands for austerity to
win a bailout from the euro zone.

8. According to a report titled "International
Migration Outlook 2015" which was released on 22 September, one in ten
new immigrants to developed countries in 2013 was from China.
Immigration flows from India were comparatively low; despite being the
next largest country, India made up only 4.4 per cent of new migrants
and was in fourth position after Poland and Romania. This report was
released by Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s
(OECD). Germany is now second only to the United States in the number of
migrants it receives.

9. Banks having a capital adequacy ratio of at least 10
per cent, besides being profitable in the last fiscal, do not require
prior approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for equity
investments in financial institutions, stock exchanges, depositories and
the like in case the investment is less than 10 per cent of the
investee company’s equity. Additionally, the RBI said, the bank’s stake
in the investee, along with those of its subsidiaries or joint ventures,
should not exceed 20 per cent.

10. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has lowered growth
projections for India for the current fiscal to 7.4 per cent, from the
7.8 per cent earlier due to weak monsoon, poor external demand and
inability of the government to push economic reforms in Parliament. It
has retained the consumer inflation forecast for India at 4 per cent
(+/- 0.2 per cent).